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Visitors to Outline Editions gallery in London next week will be able to stamp out Noma Bar’s graphic artworks by feeding sheets of rubber and paper into the maws of a giant hole-punch shaped like a dog.

The machine’s profile is based on one of Bar’s designs and actually depicts a dog swallowing a cat, swallowing a mouse.

The Israeli designer uses negative space around blocks of colour to create a second, unexpected image in the outline of the first.

Noma bar will sign and number each piece produced at the Cut it Out installation, which will be on show from 17 to 30 September at 94 Berwick Street, London, W1F 0QF.

See all our stories about the London Design Festival here.

The information below is from Outline Editions:

Cut It Out at The London Design Festival 2011

Interactive exhibition of new work from graphic artist Noma Bar

For this year’s London Design Festival, Outline Editions has invited the ingenious and award winning graphic artist Noma Bar to create a one-man show, the centrepiece of which will be his brand new installation, Cut It Out.

Noma will be creating an amazing, interactive art-making machine for the event. ‘Cut It Out’ is a specially commissioned, Heath Robinson-esque embossing device /sculpture in the shape of a giant dog, that will allow visitors to feed paper, rubber and other materials into
its mouth to produce their own cut-out Noma Bar images. These will be signed and numbered by the artist as part of a limited edition series. The prints and cut-outs will range in price from £20 to £300.

In addition to the show, Noma will be holding free live drawing and create-your-own-cut-out-art workshops at the gallery during the festival.

With this simple and clever new work, Bar delves deeper into a recurring theme – negative space. Alongside Cut It Out, the artist, fresh from a sell-out show in Paris, will be exhibiting a range of other new prints, displaying his imaginative mixture of ‘double-take’ imagery and biting social commentary. With bold colours, shapes and pared-down iconography, Bar can capture the spirit of a person or the heart of an issue with arresting clarity and humour.

In addition, for the duration of the festival, a separate section of the gallery will be devoted to a display of work by Outline Editions’ unrivalled stable of artists at the forefront of graphic art, including Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross, Beyond the Valley and Klaus Haapaniemi.

Following the London Design Festival, ‘Cut It Out’ will travel to the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, North East England for their 2011 Design Event Festival, 14th – 18th October.

Noma Bar was born in Israel in 1973 and graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in 2000. He moved to London in 2001 but it was during the first Gulf War that Bar developed his trademark combination of caricature and pictograms: while staying with his family in a shelter in Israel he sketched the likeness of Saddam Hussein around a graphic symbol for radioactivity that
he found in a newspaper.

Since then Bar has published over 1000 illustrations for magazines and books worldwide, including upwards of 60 front covers. His clients include The Economist, Wallpaper*, The New York Times, The Guardian, GQ, Esquire, IBM, Sony, The V&A and more. He has also released two books of his work, ‘Guess Who – The Many Faces of Noma Bar’ and ‘Negative Space’, to widespread critical acclaim.

Cut It Out runs from 17th to 30th September 2011 at: Outline Editions, 94 Berwick Street, London W1F 0QF

Opening times: 1100-1900, Mon-Sat

Live drawing and create-your-own-cut-out-art workshops with Noma Bar (free) on 17th and 24th September from 1400-1700 at Outline Editions.

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Dog or Bitch at Konarska-Konarski	Happily Ever by Kim HyunJoo	Cardboard dogs by Burnt Toast

Dezeen promotion: British design retailer SCP will host new product launches and a seven metre-high installation by Michael Marriott at their east London store as part of Shoreditch Design Triangle during the London Design Festival this month.

Top: Donna Wilson
Above: Channel desk lamp

Their event will be open until 8pm from 17 to 25 September under the banner Design Department Store.

Above: Maude shelves by Kay + Stemmer

Pieces on show will include furniture by Matthew Hilton, graphic prints by Rob Ryan and textiles by Donna Wilson.

Above: Marvin coat hook by Gareth Neal

Find out more at the Design Department Store microsite.

Above: Delta by Rich Brilliant Willing

Dezeen are proud to be  media partners for Shoreditch Design Triangle, which will include thirty four shops, galleries, studios bars and cafes in east London with a late-night opening on Tuesday 20 September. Download a map and guide to the area here.

Above: Donna Wilson

The London Design Festival takes place 17-25 September 2011.

Above: Ruler for Measuring the Growth of Human Beings by Rob Ryan

Here are some more details from SCP:

SCP Design Department Store
London Design Festival 17 to 25 September 2011

Meet. Browse. Relax. Have a beer. All the bases are covered at the Design Department Store during London Design Festival, 17th to 25th September 2011. This inaugural event is both a design exhibition and a working department store taking over both floors of SCP East.

Above and below: Joyce extending table by Gareth Neal

Open until 8pm every night, we will have exclusive international launches and installations with items on show available to purchase. All accompanied by music, coffee served by Olypmia Express and beer by East End stalwart, Truman’s Beer. Pop down, stay a while.

The departments:

Furniture

SCP 2011 Collection – see our latest range of upholstery and furniture from Donna Wilson, Faudet-Harrison, Gareth Neal, Kay + Stemmer, Lee Kirkbride, Matthew Hilton, Terence Woodgate and Rich Brilliant Willing.

Above: grasshopper lamp by Gubi

Design product

SCP 2011 Collection – new accessories by Rob Ryan, Donna Wilson, Rich Brilliant Willing and Sylvain Willenz.

Above: Cobra lamp by Gubi

Michael Marriott – Michael is launching his Roto Stacka stool in conjunction with his installation.

Above: Donna Wilson

Donna Wilson presents AW 11 Collection – perennially popular Donna will be showcasing her latest range. Her trademark kaleidoscope of knitted colour will be ever-present in new homewares, knitwear and accessories.

Above: Donna Wilson

Lighting

Gubi presents Grasshopper and Cobra – innovative Danish design company Gubi are relaunching Greta Grossman’s iconic Grasshopper and Cobra lamp designs from the late 1940s.

Rich Brilliant Willing present their new lighting ranges including the Delta series, Channel collection and the Quart floor and table light.

Above: Donna Wilson

Books

Max Fraser presents London Design Guide 2012-13 – following on from the success of the first edition, the publication returns with totally new and updated content. It breaks the city down into digestible areas and reviews the best design shops, galleries and institutions.

Above: Donna Wilson

Installation

Michael Marriott presents Product & Homage to Constantin Brancus – this seven metre-high installation will be situated outside SCP’s Curtain Road store, providing a beacon, table surface, lighting and seating.

Above: Donna Wilson

To promote the Design Department Store event we are launching a microsite at www.designdepartmentstore.com in September. Here you will be able to follow the individual stories, find out the latest news and download images and information.

Above: Donna Wilson

SCP East
135–139 Curtain Road
London EC2A 3BX

Monday 19 September 12.00 onwards: press preview
Tuesday 20 September 18.30-21.00: launch party
Tuesday 20th September: Shoreditch Design Triangle late night. A fantastic evening involving local galleries, shops and studios opening late and putting on a variety of events. Make a night of it.

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SCP 2011 Collection at Maison&Objet 2011	SCP at Maison & Objet 2010	Kiosk at SCP by Michael Marriott

London designer Dominic Wilcox claims he meant to leave these paint brushes unwashed so they would harden into coat hooks.

The Brush Hooks are on show at KK Outlet in London as part of an exhibition called Object Abuse. Designers including Michael Marriot, Max Lamb, Peter Marigold and F.A.T were asked to repurpose everyday objects. Object Abuse continues until 25 September and coincides with the London Design Festival. Check out our plans for the festival here.

Earlier this year Dominic Wilcox made a stylus that straps over his nose for using his touch-screen phone in the bath and coated the entire contents of an abandoned office in white paint.

The information below is from Wilcox:

‘Object Abuse’ at the KK Outlet, Hoxton Square, London.

The challenge given to a group of leading artists, designers and stylists was to ‘take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entirely new item, using as little additional materials as possible.’

Inspired by the experience of forgetting to wash brushes after use and later finding the bristles hardened with paint, I turned some paint brushes into coat hooks.

Object Abuse – September at KK Outlet

Private View: Thursday 1 September
Exhibition Runs: 2 – 25 September

KK Outlet present Object Abuse as part of London Design Festival 2011.

KK Outlet have challenged a group of leading artists, designers and stylists to take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entirely new item using as little additional materials as possible.

A hula-hoop becomes an atom.
For sale signs become a flat pack birdhouse.
A lightbulb becomes a micro-greenhouse
A sofa becomes a Pantomime horse

The aim of the project is to create a collection of re-imagined objects which highlight not only how everyday items can be recycled into something completely new but also how we think differently when we work with our hands and how physical interaction creates new ideas we wouldn’t have conceived staring at a screen.

The full collection of transformed works will be show at KK Outlet throughout September as part of London Design Festival and the ICON Design Guide.

Each item will be for sale during the show with all proceeds being donated to the St Monica’s of Hackney Primary School Art Department.

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DIY Series by Andre Pereira	Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones by Studio Toogood	Saucer by Eric Degenhardt for Schönbuch

London designer Oscar Diaz has redesigned the pen pot so there’s no need to tip pens all over the desk or jam your fingers down the side to retrieve a paper clip or pencil sharpener that’s slipped to the bottom.

The silicone Pen Pal has teeth round the edge to hold pens upright while a shallow dish in the centre contains smaller items.

Diaz will present the product for Spanish company Doiy as part of an exhibition called Barcelona Design meets London at The Vyner Studio during the London Design Festival next month.

Diaz first appeared on Dezeen in 2009 with his Ink Calendar that uses the capillary action of ink spreading across paper to display the date. See all our stories about his work here.

Check out more stories about stationery here.

The information below is from Oscar Diaz:

Pen Pal by Oscar Diaz

Pen pal is a simple pen stand made of silicone. Observing pen holders and improvised pen pots I realised that many small objects are difficult to access when they are mixed with pens of different sizes.

Usually the smaller items fall into to the bottom, which makes them unreachable and they end up taking much of the available space.

Pen Pal proposes to have fewer pens, but have all of them accessible. The central can hold clips; pins and other small objects while the conical holes allow placing pens of different diameters all around the cavity.

It keeps everything accessible avoiding having to turn your pen pot upside down to find a clip.

Produced by: Doiy
Product name: Pen Pal
Year: 2011
Materials: Silicone
Dimensions: 31 x 96 mm diam.

“Barcelona Design meets London” at The Vyner Studio.

Designers: Oscar Díaz, Tomás Alonso, Aloy Mas, Causas Externas, Out of Stock and GR
Organized by: GR Industrial Design, The Vyner Studio, BCD (Barcelona Centre de Disseny)
Sponsoring: Estrella Damn, Viña Zorzal

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REC & PLAY by Yuri Suzuki and Oscar Diaz	Ink Calendar by Oscar Diaz	Found by Oscar Diaz

London designer Makiko Nakamura will exhibit a tea set engulfed in flowers and foliage at Tent London during the London Design Festival next month.

Called 100 Years After the Party, the series is inspired by a story Nakamura tells about a tea service left behind at the end of civilisation.

In the story, seeds land on the disintegrating porcelain by chance 100 years later, consuming the pieces in flowers.

Tent London will take place from 22 to 25 September at the Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL, UK.

Check out Dezeen’s plans for the London Design Festival here.

Here some more details from Tent London:

Makiko Nakamura is a ceramic artist and designer based in London, and “What a wonderful world!” is a slogan of her creation. She has worked with ceramics in both art and design, making narrative one-off art pieces that have fantasy stories behind them. In addition, she has enjoyed making tableware that focuses on function, form and design. In the both types of works, Makiko combines sophistication and humor.

Anthology of daydream stories – 100 Years After The Party

Makiko creates her works from stories she generated with some inspiration and her works also play a role as media to approach the stories behind them.

One hundred years after the party, all the luxury furniture and ornaments in the room have rotten and moulded, and only porcelain tea set has been left. Gorgeous gold paint on the tea set has been washed away by rain and the tea set was absolutely lonely and miserable.

But on the day, one hundred years after the party, it is nothing short of a miraculous, beautiful bird dropping the seed on the tea set.

Then, leaves and germs come out and flowers bloom on it. The tea set has got a new life and not lonely anymore.

Happily ever after…

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Five Star Crockery by Judith Montens	Table-Palette by Kiki van Eijk	Ornamented Life by Joana Meroz